Shinano

Shinano

(shĭnä`nō), river, longest of Honshu, Japan, c.230 mi (370 km) long. It rises in the mountains of central Honshu and flows generally NE to the Sea of Japan at Niigata. It waters the fertile Niigata plain.

The transport ministry's Hokuriku regional development bureau informed JR East of the revocation plan as the Shinanogawa power plant had tampered with a water intake measuring program, in violation of the river law, so as to draw a total of around 310 million cubic meters of water in excess of the quota between 2002 and 2008 from the Shinano River, according to the ministry.

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